Managing Partner Bootcamp

Managing Partner Bootcamp (MPB) is a comprehensive opportunity to take your firm management skills to the next level. It is not another practice management conference, discussing contemporary issues and ideas. It is managing a practice seminar. The ultimate goal is for you, the firm’s managing partner, to make better decisions in running your firm. Participants will receive an amazing return on their investment.

This rigorous training is spread over two three-day sessions: one in the spring and one in the fall. Managing Partner Bootcamp will change the way you lead, guide you to make better decisions, improve your effectiveness, and give you the knowledge and confidence to run your firm more effectively and profitably. Industry expert Gary Shamis conceived of and designed Managing Partner Bootcamp with the experience he gained in his four-decades long career building and growing one of the nation’s largest and most respected independent accounting and consulting firms, SS&G, Inc. In this program, he will share with you what nobody else has about running a firm – the challenges, opportunities, surprises, successes – and and and give you the skills necessary to help you confidently elevate your firm leadership.

This will be unlike any event you have ever attended. The intense, interactive programming will sharpen your skills, help you to confront and overcome shortcomings, and deepen your ability to perform more confidently. Sixteen* impactful courses will elevate your capabilities challenging and changing the way you look at, think about, and perform your role.

MPB will enable you to develop business tools that will have you functioning at an elite level. It will maximize your leadership potential by honing in on your strengths and identifying and improving your weaknesses. It will guide you toward long-term, viable firm leadership. Very few seminars are available to managing partners looking to successfully enhance the way they manage people and lead firms. This opportunity is only for those managing partners serious about wanting to get to the next level.

Gain a long-term competitive advantage. Register today!

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Space is Limited

Only 10 people will be admitted to a session. This will maximize your ability to interact and support discussions in a confidential environment. You will get to know your peers and develop a network of trusted confidants with whom to share future challenges and successes. (View a list of prior attendees at the bottom of this page.)

Qualifications

This is a unique and measurable opportunity for incoming and newer managing partners to gain immediate knowledge and confidence, and seasoned managing partners to hone their skills. One day follow-up seminars will be hosted to reunite classmates and discuss contemporary issues.

Curriculum

Managing Partner Bootcamp will cover a skills-based curriculum as opposed to business-based curriculum. This will ensure your ability to apply what you learn to the way you lead regardless of how long you have been in the position.

Crisis Management

Culture

Effective Communication and Difficult Conversations

Industry Update

Infrastructure, Organizational Development, and Governance

Marketing and Business Development

Risk Management and Negotiation Skills

Presentation Skills

Nutrition, Mindfulness, and Healthcare

Strategy, Execution, and Change Management

Talent Strategy and Millennials

Team Building

The Modern Learner

Tricks and Tips

Who are you? A psychological assessment with related analysis

iLab

Faculty

Gary Shamis assumed responsibility for his father’s accounting firm in 1981. Over the thirty-five years that followed, he took revenues from $225,000 to approaching $100 million and employees from a dozen to 600. He built the 37th largest independent accounting and consulting firm in the nation, before combining SS&G, Inc. with BDO USA, LLP in 2014. Today, as principal of Winding River Consulting, a business advisory services company, Gary is a highly sought after speaker, facilitator, and consultant.

In its inaugural list of Managing Partner Elite in Accounting in 2012, Accounting Today identified Shamis as one of only ten people recognized for qualities required of a person in a firm’s leadership role. He is the “very model of the modern managing partner, and this list is more or less unimaginable without him,” it stated, adding “he invented, codified, or popularized most of the strategies and best practices that are now taken for granted.”

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As one of the nation’s foremost experts on crisis communications, Bruce Hennes knows what it is like to be on the front line when a company’s reputation is on the line. He is the principal of Hennes Communications, a crisis communications, media training, litigation communications, and media relations consulting firm. He counts Fortune 500 companies among the clients that he successfully advises when they are “on trial” in the Court of Public Opinion.

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With extensive experience in marketing, branding, advertising, public, media, and community relations, crisis communications, and corporate reputation management, Ilana Isakov Katz spent more than a decade working with Gary Shamis as director of marketing for SS&G. Drawing on her past experience with Fortune 500 companies, she designs and implements performance-driven and results-oriented plans and programs to support dynamic objectives.

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Evan Ishida improves the performance of people in the workplace. He designs and facilitates collaborative, creative, and innovative environments for organizations creating cultures where employees learn and thrive. He works with Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and for-profit start ups on issues including diversity and inclusion, managing generations in the workplace, and organizational development.

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Acclaimed author and speaker Lisa Ryan draws upon her years of sales, marketing, and training experience to deliver life- and career-changing strategies and inspiration to her audiences. As Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy, her programs focus on workplace culture, employee engagement, and gratitude strategies for personal and professional development, and turn employees’ soft skills into organizations’ bottom-line profits.

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As a former law enforcement officer and border patrol agent, Matt Terlop knows the importance of discipline and the value of a healthy, active lifestyle. As a coach to many in the C-Suite, Matt helps executives attain physical fitness, mental agility, and emotional balance, combating daily stress to achieve peak performance in their personal and professional lives.

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Erica Yesko works with the C-level on strategy, organization design, culture articulation, change management, and leadership development. She provides mentoring support and guidance on internal organization design, alignment and human resource needs to clients in a myriad of industries. Erica has a solid understanding of the dynamics of change leadership to produce business redesigns and cultural transformation. She led the business development function at BDO, USA. Additionally, she is a Master Coach.

Details

Cost: Cost to participate is $8,000 per attendee and excludes travel and hotel accommodations. All meals, activities, and materials are included. Several reading assignments will be required for both sessions. We are so confident that you will find value in your investment of time and tuition, we will honor a money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your experience and professional growth.

Dates: It is necessary to attend both a spring session and a fall session in order to complete the full curriculum and to cultivate a managing partner community.

Part I

Part II

2017 Class – Spring Start

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GRADUATED!

2017 Class – Fall Start

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GRADUATED!

2018 Class – Spring Start

BEGAN MAY 14, 2018

INSESSION

2018 Class – Fall Start

REGISTRATION OPEN**

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2019 Classes

Dates coming

Dates coming

To enable participants to minimize out-of-office travel time, Day 1 classes begin at 1:00 p.m. EST and Day 3 classes end at 12:00 p.m. EST.

Winding River Consulting is a business advisory services company aimed at supporting accounting firm managing partners and leadership with the challenges of successfully identifying and attaining goals of growth, productivity, and profit.